Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
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I don't care if I get $50m to do a film.
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I try to take each moment at a time.
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France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
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I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
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It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
